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Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism

Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism

Heffernan, Teresa

Hardcover

Literary CriticismReligion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 1442637234
ISBN13: 9781442637238
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Apr 11 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, public debates about Islam and the veil have become increasingly divisive. Yet few acknowledge that this fascination with veiling goes back more than three centuries.

In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women's bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period.

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